Arthur Mansell
Australian politician
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Arthur Robert Mansell CBE (19 December 1904 – 26 July 1990) was an Australian politician.
Life
He was born in Mildura and was a fruit grower in the district before entering politics. He served on the Mildura City Council from 1945 to 1969 and was mayor twice between 1949 and 1951.[1]
A Country Party member, he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council in 1952 for North Western Province.[2] From 1969 to 1973 he was Deputy Leader of the Country Party in the upper house. Mansell retired from politics in 1973, in which year he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire.[2] He married Dorothy Mable Davies,[1] with whom he had four children. Mansell died in 1990.[2]